Grasping Concepts

We spend lots time exploring and discussing concepts like open, closed, fixed, broken, fit, too big, too small. I love it. I feel like my LO's mind is working to take it all in. For example:

He asks if I fit in his play house, or if a big toy dog fits in a little matchbox car.

He'll ask if a wooden block can be opened.

He'll ask if I can fix a broken crayon or if he can touch certain things.

I don't know why, but I just find it really interesting and I can see that he is starting to separate out which things can be fixed and which can't and which things fit where and which things don't. I just love this age and I love how he is always looking for ways to understand the little day to day things.

One of her favorite things is to point out when something is BIG and when it is small in her BIG and small voices.

If she cannot open something herself, she asks me to. Amazingly, she can open tops that require to be turned. She's constantly getting into my jar of Vicks on my nightstand. LOL She loves the smell of it.

I was trying to get dressed after work yesterday and she was in my room, being obnoxious, messing with the Vicks and asking me to smell it, etc. I jokingly told her that if she doesn't calm down, I'm gonna pop her in the nose. OMG, she took her hand and popped herself in the nose saying "pop in nose!" LMFAO Silly girl.

I am fascinated by this stuff too.. sometimes he says things that seem so normal then I think about it and I'm like.. how do you even understand things like that!?

The other day he asked for a drink of the bottle of Mountain Dew I was holding. I said no. He said "can I hold it?" no. "squeeze it?" no. "spill it?" no. "pour it?" no. "taste it?" no. "carry it?" no. "open it?" no. (etc.. for like 10 minutes.. I was like holy hell that's awesome!! lol).

Zach has started telling people he likes stuff about them. I know he got it from me since I am constantly telling someone I like their shirt, nails, hair etc. When I picked him up from his dad's last Saturday in my orange college sweatshirt he said "Mommies, I like-a your shirt!" Oh and he calls me mommies which I think is hilarious. Since I am always saying thats mommie's. I am always possessive according to Zach!

That's funny about refering to you in the possessive because my LO does that too, but about himself.

If you ask him in Spanish what his name is he will respond "Samuel", but if you ask him in English he says "Sams". I think it is because I say things like "Are these Sam's socks or Papi's socks?" or "Wow, look at Sam's bus."